merely academic

Examples (10)

• The debate over which font to use is merely academic; we need to launch the website now.
• Whether we could have saved more money is a merely academic question now that the deal is done.
• For the engineers on the ground, the theoretical discussion in the boardroom was merely academic.
• The legal distinction became merely academic once the new evidence was revealed.
• Arguing about who would have won the game is merely academic because the final score is already recorded.
• Without a practical way to test the hypothesis, the entire theory remains merely academic.
• His objections were dismissed as being merely academic and irrelevant to the immediate crisis.
• The question of what might have been is interesting but merely academic.
• For most people, the finer points of this philosophical argument are merely academic.
• At this stage, any discussion about changing the plan is merely academic as construction has already begun.